On 21/12/2013 07:35, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
On 21/12/2013 07:20, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
The subject refers to the list sort method given here
http://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list. I believe that the
"*," bit is simply a typo, given that the docs also state "sort() accepts
two arguments that can only be passed by keyword". Am I correct?
It's good practice in technical writing to repeat yourself: once in
the formal spec, and once in plain english. I don't see why this would
be a typo.
-- Devin
So what is it actually saying?
def func(x, y, *moreargs, foo, bar):
pass
Any positional args after x and y will go into moreargs, so foo and
bar have to be specified by keywords. (And are mandatory, since I
didn't default them.) If moreargs isn't given a name, then additional
positional args are forbidden, but the requirements on foo and bar are
the same.
ChrisA
Thanks, you learn something new every day. Or, at my age, you relearn
something you've forgotten :) Now where was I...
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